Today, Starbucks premiered a completely new holiday cup (along with their holiday menu, which we’ll get to momentarily) that’s probably going to earn both accolades and more idiotic criticism. That’s because the cup is even less Christmassy than before. Instead of snowflakes and Santas and reindeer and sleigh bells on a red background, this year’s cup is green and is covered by line drawings of people of all types. There’s a white dot in the center of the cup (that’s as close as we’re getting to snowflakes), but the message here isn’t Christmas — it’s diversity and community.

Not at all. Uproxx thrives from all of the faux outrage from the people coming here to complain about the faux outrage.
That and Conservative tears, which are as sweet and useless as jelly stuck to the lid of the jar.
HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!!

Because these aren’t the holiday cups. I work for Starbucks, our holiday cups don’t come out until the end of next week, and they are red. We only have the green ones for one week because of the election and Upstanders web series that we’really doing. This has nothing to do with the holidays.

The narrative on the “faux outrage” is inaccurate. What actually occurred was that literally two people (an obscure radio evangelist & a foreign writer) complained about the cups, followed by thousands of articles/memes/tweets about how “conservatives are losing their minds” over the cups. (If you don’t believe me, go back & read some of the articles… if anyone is named at all, it is always the same 2 people used as “examples”).

These aren’t the holiday cups. I work for Starbucks, our holiday cups don’t come out until the end of next week, and they are red. We only have the green ones for one week because of the election and Upstanders web series that we’really doing. This has nothing to do with the holidays.